{"id":8800,"date":"2014-08-11T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2014-08-11T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:07:49","slug":"padres-designate-jeff-francoeur-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/11\/padres-designate-jeff-francoeur-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres designate Jeff Francoeur for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jefffrancoeur.jpg\" alt=\"jefffrancoeur\" width=\"594\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8801\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jefffrancoeur.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jefffrancoeur-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe San Diego Padres have designated outfielder Jeff Francoeur for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Francoeur&#8217;s three week stay with the Padres ends with a 2-for-24 line with seven strikeouts. With no one expected to make a claim on him Francoeur will either have the option of reporting to Triple-A El Paso or electing for free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Francoeur has not contributed much since the 2011 season while with Kansas City. In 239 games since the end of 2011 he has just a .222\/.269\/.346 line with 19 home runs and 67 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have designated outfielder Jeff Francoeur for assignment. Francoeur&#8217;s three week stay with the Padres ends with a 2-for-24 line with seven strikeouts. With no one expected to make a claim on him Francoeur will either have the option of reporting to Triple-A El Paso or electing for free agency. The 30-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[138,501,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jeff-francoeur","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8802,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/8802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}